starlett2010
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Post by starlett2010 on Jun 4, 2009 0:42:59 GMT -5
I had an extension in my room when I got to middle school. I didn't use it all that much. I was on the phone way more back when I first started school. So I was six years old, and hogging the kitchen phone. It's funny to me now, because what's there to talk about when you're in kindergarten? I'm sure a little kid like Karen would have A LOT to say!
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Post by booboobrewer on Jun 4, 2009 12:32:49 GMT -5
Oh, you're totally right.
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Penny Lane
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Post by Penny Lane on Jun 4, 2009 14:50:26 GMT -5
I kind of always assumed that she shared the line with Janine -- it was "their" line, and they each had extensions in their rooms, but since Janine had no friends it was never an issue.
I had my own phone line that I shared with the internet. Worst. Arrangement.EVER.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jun 5, 2009 12:08:53 GMT -5
There probably would have been some trouble when the Kishis first got dial-up internet, because likely the line that Claudia and Janine had would have been applied to the dial up for Janine's computer as well. That could have been a source of a lot of friction, especially if Janine was trying to do something online that she didn't finish up by meeting time.
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Post by candykane on Oct 21, 2009 11:55:38 GMT -5
I had an extension in my room when I was in elementary school, but I shared the room with my sister who was in high school, so it wasn't just "mine." And it wasn't a private line. I always found Claudia's private line to be totally cool.
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Post by featherearrings on Oct 21, 2009 13:03:47 GMT -5
I don't think she shared with Janine. On a couple of occasions, Janine answered Claudia's phone. She probably wouldn't do that if she had her own phone. (I think I remember once she said, "I heard your phone ringing.") I assumed Janine wasn't interested in having her own line. Or she chose computer over phone.
The closest I got to my own line when I was a teenager was having a cordless phone that I was allowed to take into my bedroom lol.
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Post by cokiemason on Oct 21, 2009 13:22:22 GMT -5
ahahah i never had my own line, but i remember using the extention in my parents room... the old clock radio + phone... that they still have. oh boy. this was before we got a cordless, and nothing in the world was better than that... no more having to yell "i got it!... mom? HANG UP! I'M ON THE PHONE!"
ah, memories.
but yeah, i found it weird that claudia had her own phone line... and janine and her green computer. maybe not janine as much, but claudias stupid and doesnt do her homework anyway... hello distraction. at least if it was the main line, her mother could get on the other extention and tell her to hang up. it just seemed like so much freedom for a freakin 12 year old. but, a 12 year old in sbrook is like a 30 year old, so...
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Post by rainbowgirl28 on Oct 21, 2009 15:41:16 GMT -5
My sister had her own phone line (late 90s), but it was like someone else said where it came through the main line with a different ring. My parents refused to get cordless phones, and we weren't allowed to have phones in our bedrooms (looking back, I am not sure if we have phone jacks in the rooms) but we did get a long phone cord so if I stretch out the phone it just barely goes in the bedroom.
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Post by rainbowgirl28 on Oct 21, 2009 15:41:52 GMT -5
I'm sure a little kid like Karen would have A LOT to say! Haha yeah I think there is a whole Little Sister book about Karen getting in trouble for talking on the phone too much.
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 21, 2009 18:10:45 GMT -5
My parents refused to get cordless phones, and we weren't allowed to have phones in our bedrooms (looking back, I am not sure if we have phone jacks in the rooms) but we did get a long phone cord so if I stretch out the phone it just barely goes in the bedroom. We didn't have a cordless phone for the longest time, so we had this freakishly long cord that you could get to the bathroom with and close the door. It was like a phone booth. When we finally got a cordless it was life-changing, lol. We also never had an answering machine and it was a pain in the ass.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Oct 21, 2009 22:28:06 GMT -5
Janine didn't have her own phone, she chose a computer, so she wuldn't have had a phone line either, I imagine.
With cordless phones now, does anyone need a private line in their room? Doubtful.
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Post by wenonah4th on Nov 19, 2010 14:45:02 GMT -5
I don't remember it but my dad says when they had a line for dial up I would use it to call the downstairs line just to be goofy.
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Nov 19, 2010 22:33:10 GMT -5
i never had my own line. by the time i was old enough for a phone, i just got a cell phone instead :]
i don't know if this has been mentioned anywhere else, but i always thought the kishis let claudia have the phone to motivate her to keep her grades up. kind of like how they are constantly threatening to kick her out of the club. if she started slipping up, they would take the phone out.
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 19, 2010 23:53:33 GMT -5
Wenonah, I never thought of the dial up internet being a reason the Kishis might have given Claud her own line but you are very right. Back then, that probably was the only way to go online and if Janine truly did "live on her computer" as Claud would say, there would go the home phone.
Also, at least in the BSC universe, I always got the impression that all calls were toll. I know we've discussed this before but didn't it seem like even calls to the Perkinses cost some amount of money from Claud's house? I can understand the charge from Stoneybrook to Stamford or maybe from Bradford Court to Kristy's (if Watson's ritzy neighborhood had a seperate area code). Otherwise, other than the monthly charge for the line, and calls to Stacey/Dawn Claud's bill should not have been that expensive, should it?
I had my own phone number (on a landline phone) during high school. I've never been much of a telephone talker (fan of gabbing on the phone) so am not even sure why I ended up with it.
Oldhickory, interesting theory. Although, with the exception of the book (Middle School Dropout)? where Claud cuts back on sitting to study and take Serena's art class, I don't think she ever limited her baby-sitting time again did she? (Ashley Wyeth notwithstanding, of course). And we know, Mr. and Mrs. Kishi never made her give her the club or cut back so the whole thing sort of is reminiscent of the junk food and Nancy Drew!
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